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How do I send a POST request with PHP?

September 8, 2022 by Tarik

CURL-less method with PHP5: $url=”http://server.com/path”; $data = array(‘key1’ => ‘value1’, ‘key2’ => ‘value2’); // use key ‘http’ even if you send the request to https://… $options = array( ‘http’ => array( ‘header’ => “Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n”, ‘method’ => ‘POST’, ‘content’ => http_build_query($data) ) ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context); if ($result === FALSE) … Read more

Detecting request type in PHP (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE)

September 5, 2022 by Tarik

By using $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] Example if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] === ‘POST’) { // The request is using the POST method } For more details please see the documentation for the $_SERVER variable.

How are parameters sent in an HTTP POST request?

August 27, 2022 by Tarik

The values are sent in the request body, in the format that the content type specifies. Usually the content type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, so the request body uses the same format as the query string: parameter=value&also=another When you use a file upload in the form, you use the multipart/form-data encoding instead, which has a different format. … Read more